I'm a student at Hebrew college in the BAJS program.
I just got back from 3 months at a Jewish retreat center. I've been worrying a lot less and just enjoying life, going off into the woods to hike, studying sacred texts, reading poetry, praying, meditating, singing, smiling.
Sat 26 Nov, 2005 08:19 pm - I've worn clothing with the designer's logo on it, but I try to look for what's inconspicuous. I avoid team logos because I'm not a sports fan, much. I wouldn't wear a... (view)
Sat 26 Nov, 2005 08:03 pm - Just call it what it is: a tree, indoors, with lots of tchatchkes and doodads and nicknacks hanging from it, and some lights and bells and whistles, and some presents, and that stuff that sprays... (view)
Sat 26 Nov, 2005 07:40 pm - I don't insist that "life is meaningless without a supernatural (or maybe natural in my case) force" that may (or may not in my case) have created the universe. And I would imagine... (view)
Thu 17 Nov, 2005 12:54 pm - I did some reading on Wikipedia and it does have to do with aliens. They have a creation story for the earth with an alien who travels in a spaceship that looks like a normal passenger plane. He... (view)
Sun 9 Oct, 2005 12:25 pm - It sounds similar to a Jewish notion. One of the names for God is Ayin, which means Nothing in the sense of being without boundaries, not a thing. And it is the goal of the mystic, according to... (view)
Thu 6 Oct, 2005 09:17 pm - I think that it's an attempt to reach to the heavens, the "realm of the gods." But I don't know anything about the history of steeples. (view)
